Monument record MDO8085 - Bown barrow, one of the Five Barrow Hill Group, Tyneham

Potential site of a Bronze Age barrow. A curved bank, possibly forming part of the barrow is visible at this location on aerial photographs taken in 1982.

Five Barrow Hill Group of six round barrows, including three bells in an almost straight line along the summit of a slight ridge: 'F'-(33)-SY 87638397. Bowl (?) barrow, about 30ft diameter and 1ft high. (Authy 2). <3>

SY 876840. Five Barrows, round barrows. Scheduled. <4>

Barrows 'A' - 'D' approximate to the descriptions and measurements of Authority (3) 'E' has been destroyed, while 'F' is not a barrow
but an area of greater vegetation growth with no underlying mound. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <5>

Potential site of a Bronze Age barrow. A curved bank 17m across (possibly forming the northern side of the barrow) is visible at this location on aerial photographs taken in 1982 <8>. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 138 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 876840) Five Barrows (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 455 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1977, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England Vol 2, 71 (Monograph). SWX2300.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 07-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 168 (Index). SDO147.

‘Situated on heathland within the army ranges. 1/3/C.’

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 19-APR-1982, OS 82047 505-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13709.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455476 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 22 2024 4:07PM